(Simon Williams) IBM Cognos Express Data Advisor may fail to analyze once you click the Analyze button in IBM Cognos Express Data Advisor. This document illustrates and outlines the most common issues and their solution.

(Whei-Jen Chen, Ute Baumbach, Robert Borovsky, Sonali Kenge, Marcia Miskimen and Ling Xu) Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition, a follow-on to DB2 Performance Expert, is one of the key products of the IBM Optim Solution. Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition provides a comprehensive, proa

(Rebecca Bond) IBM DB2 DBAs intuitively deal with risk identification and management every day, yet they may still be impacted by risk management in ways that they may not recognize.

(Charles Le Vay, Thomas Gissel and Lan Vuong) The IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance now expands the range of clients able to access simple data grids with the release of the REST Gateway feature. Non-Java based clients with HTTP capabilites, including PHP and .NET clients, can utilize the XC10

(Thomas Snyder) As you start using embedded SQL more frequently within your RPG code, you’ll soon find that your SQL statements are becoming larger and larger and the interactive SQL tool on the green-screen starts becoming quite cumbersome. In this article, I will introduce Squirrel SQL, which is a

(Troy Coleman) I’ll be on hand for the SHARE conference in Anaheim, Calif., from Feb. 27 to March 4.

(Conor O’Mahony) Last year, I wrote about how IBM DB2 adds “SQL Skin for Sybase ASE” to Ease Database Migrations. I have been lucky enough to hear from some of the luminaries involved in the SQL Skin, so I thought I would take a few moments to follow up on that blog post.

(Paolo Bruni, Tom Crocker, Elaine Morelli, Richard Schaufuss and Li Chuan Wang) Today’s business environment has increased the complexity and rate of change that a database administrator must control. The ability to respond quickly to a changing environment is constantly challenged by the explosion

(Marichu Scanlon) IBM Data Studio and IBM Optim Development Studio (ODS) are Eclipse-based IDE client tools for developing database business objects. In this article, find various problem determination tips, including tracing and logging in Data Studio and Optim Development Studio.

(Henrik Loeser) Today is Valentine’s Day and according to Wikipedia an annual commemoration to “celebrating love and affection between intimate companions”. This sounds like the typical DBA and database system relationship to me.